Saint-Point, castle of the twelfth and fourteenth century, classified Historical Monument and House of the Illustres, becomes from 1820 the family home of the poet and politician Alphonse de Lamartine. Considered the father of Romanticism in literature, he was also one of the founders of the Second Republic and contributed to the abolition of slavery, the political death penalty and the establishment of universal suffrage. He received the castle of Saint-Point in advance of hoirie, during his marriage with an English aristocrat, Mary-Ann Birch, and undertook to restore it in the Anglo-Saxon Gothic style, discovered during a trip to England. Lamartine built a quadrilobée gallery, a gothic porch and landscaped English gardens. The visit to the Château de Saint-Point includes the bedroom and the study room of Alphonse de Lamartine, furnished as they were at the time, the dining room of the eighteenth century, the study of work of his secretary as well as the museum Lamartine. Located in t
Access
parking devant le portail du château.
Website
https://chateaudelamartine.fr
Phone
06 73 01 94 59

Adresse
71520 Saint-Point, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France